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CAN any of your readers account for the following facts?— An examination of the liver of some six-weeks-old calves which had never touched any food but their mother's milk showed them to be infested with fully-developed Fluke (Distoma hepatica). It is clear that the presence of these flukes does not admit of the usual explanation, viz., the ingestion with green food or water of mollusca bearing the larva in one of its earlier stages.
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B., A. Fluke in Calves. Nature 23, 244 (1881). https://doi.org/10.1038/023244d0
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